Saturday, October 29, 2011

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College Hills students make book characters more than words

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:20 PM PDT

College Hills Elementary teacher Christina Daniels shows her Pinocchio costume to first-grader Nick Gutierrez during the school's Storybook Character Parade on Friday. The annual event capped off Red Ribbon Week, the national anti-drug program, with ...

Investigation launched after Calvert Nursing Home closes

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:20 PM PDT


A Robertson County nursing home is under investigation after the facility abruptly shut down without giving required notice to employees, residents or the state.
The 32-bed Calvert Nursing Home at 701 E. Browning St. is being scrutinized by the Te ...

Trick or treat? B-CS has both

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:21 PM PDT


Those looking for fun and spookiness this Halloween won't have to search hard.
During the next few days, local businesses and organizations will be hosting family-friendly fests, as well as some intended to spook and thrill older trick-or-treate ...

Authorities probe deadly house fire in Franklin

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:12 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report
The Robertson County Sheriff's Department and the State Fire Marshals Office are investigating the death of a 20-year-old man from Franklin who died in a house fire early Friday morning.
Ben Stone died when the house in which he ...

A&M Mothers' Clubs vendors at A&M today, Saturday

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 02:20 AM PDT

Aggie Mother's Clubs from all over Texas will have vendor booths set up at Rudder Exhibit Hall today and Saturday to sell a variety of items including crafts, jewelry, pottery and A&M apparel.The Seasons of Aggieland Bazaar will be from 10 a.m. t ...

USDA to cut various ag reports

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:21 PM PDT


PIERRE, S.D. -- When farmers need to check honey prices so they can decide whether to sell, there's been a report for that. And when catfish and sheep farmers want to check production in their industries, there've been reports for that, too.
The U ...

Milam County rig fire nearly extinguished

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:20 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report
The fire on an oil drilling platform in Milam County that started Sunday has been almost completely put out.
Chief Deputy Chris White said the fire was expected to be capped off by either Friday night or Saturday morning.
Thou ...

Feds tighten belt by cutting agriculture reports

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 07:20 AM PDT

PIERRE, S.D. -- When farmers need to check honey prices so they can decide whether to sell, there's been a report for that. And when catfish and sheep farmers want to check production in their industries, there've been reports for that, too.The U.S. ...

Smoke seen at A&M; firefighters called

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:21 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report
The College Station Fire Department arrived at Texas A&M's Administration Building on Friday afternoon after smoke was seen coming from the building's third floor.
University staff evacuated the building after hearing the fi ...

Community pancake breakfast at A&M Saturday

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 02:36 AM PDT

Texas A&M University’s Alpha Phi Omega on Saturday morning will offer pancakes for a donation and host a silent auction to benefit Team Fox for Parkinson’s research around the country.
Pancakes for Parkinson’s will be held from ...

FBI hunts female bank robber in shower cap, PJs

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 12:30 AM PDT


HOUSTON -- The FBI is looking for a woman who robbed a Houston bank in a purple shower cap and pajamas with cartoons on them.
Dubbing the woman the "Rub-A-Dub Robber," the FBI said in a statement that she held up the Lonestar Bank on Texas 6 in th ...

Mothers' Clubs vend at A&M

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:20 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report
Aggie Mother's Clubs from all over Texas will have vendor booths set up at Rudder Exhibit Hall Saturday to sell a variety of items, including crafts, jewelry, pottery and A&M apparel.
The Seasons of Aggieland Bazaar will be f ...

Panel debates testing Anthrax vaccine in kids

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:20 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- Should the anthrax vaccine be tested in children? It will be a while longer before the government decides.An advisory board said Friday that ethical issues need to be resolved -- but if that can be accomplished the vaccine can be tested ...

Cities allowing Occupy Wall Street protests to go on

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:19 PM PDT


NEW YORK -- While more U.S. cities are resorting to force to break up the Wall Street protests, many others -- Philadelphia, New York, Minneapolis and Portland, Ore., among them -- are content to let the demonstrations go on for now.
New York Mayo ...

Deliberations to begin for mom in hot-car death

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 12:33 AM PDT

BROWNSVILLE -- A jury is to deliberate punishment Friday in the trial of a South Texas woman convicted of charges in the death of her 4-year-old daughter in a hot family truck.The Cameron County judge found Olga Salazar guilty of criminally negligent ...

Cardinals stun Texas, force World Series to Game 7

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 12:33 AM PDT

ST. LOUIS -- By the time David Freese stomped on home plate Game 6 had already been stamped among the greatest thrillers in baseball history.Twice down to their last strike, the St. Louis Cardinals somehow rallied.And when Freese completed a startlin ...

Savings plummet with interest rates

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:20 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- Americans are making a little more money and spending a lot more. Under normal circumstances, that would be a troubling sign for the economy. But a closer look at some new government figures suggests another possibility: People are savi ...

Halloween celebrates inclusivity

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:20 PM PDT

By BRUCE CHABOT
"After this I, John, looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white...." -- Revelation 7:9
...

Romney remarks may give rivals an opening

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:20 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney may need a censor. For himself.In the last few weeks in Nevada, the man who owns several homes told the state hit tough by the housing crisis: "Don't try and stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bo ...

Kevorkian estate on sale

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:20 PM PDT


NEW YORK -- Dr. Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine and 17 paintings tied up in a legal dispute with a suburban Boston museum are among the assisted-suicide advocate's possessions going on the auction block on Friday.
The paintings, including one Kev ...

Dog survives gas chamber, up for adoption in NJ

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:05 PM PDT


NEWARK, N.J. -- A stray beagle mix that cheated death in an Alabama dog pound's gas chamber has found a temporary home in New Jersey while he waits for another family to adopt him.
Volunteers began looking for a new home for the dog known as Dani ...

U.S. Embassy attacked by gunman in Bosnia

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:19 PM PDT


SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- A man armed with hand grenades and an automatic weapon opened fire outside the U.S. Embassy in Bosnia Friday in what authorities called a terrorist attack. A policeman and the gunman were wounded, but the embassy sai ...

Occupy Wall Street protesters brace for cold

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:06 PM PDT


PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Wall Street protesters around the country who are vowing to stand their ground against the police and politicians are also digging in against a different kind of adversary: cold weather.
With the temperature dropping, they are ...

A new dimension for 'Titanic'

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:12 PM PDT


LOS ANGELES -- James Cameron took his "2.99-D" version of Titanic out into open water Friday.
The director of the Oscar-winning 1997 film and producer Jon Landau previewed 18 minutes of assorted footage that has been converted into 3-D for next ye ...

Letters for October 29

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:05 PM PDT


Candidate listens to the people of District 14
Why I voted for John Raney: John is the only candidate who clearly understands the meaning and function of "representative government." How is it that I justify this claim?
John listens. John has a ...

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